Tasting

The specialty coffee world is all about single-origin beans. Well, perhaps not all, but suffice to say that specific and far-flung origins are core to “third-wave” coffee culture. Some folks even make full-on careers of finding and promoting interesting coffee origins to their connoisseur clientele. It’s like wine or cigars, just less pretentious. Well, usually……

You can’t always pack up and leave on a trip across the world, but you can take a grand tour through coffee. In fact, discovering unique origins is one of the things that hooked me on specialty coffee in the first place.  Just like with wine, the flavor of coffee depends on the environment it…